THE WEST’S NEW “TROJAN HORSE” FOR SYRIA!

France and Great Britain recognized and tout the new Syrian opposition leadership, a de-facto Western puppet group, as the new Syrian government in exile. The purpose? To snatch the victory from the Syrian rebels when they push Assad out, and deliver Syria to the West as their – and Israel’s- anti-Iranian protectorate in Middle East.

This is the 4th attempt by the West to hijack the Arab Springs and install pro-Western puppets into the post Assad Syria. Here is that history: 1) Tunisia. The West managed to install Ben Ali’s Vice President – before further turmoil by Tunisian protesters forced him out. 2) Egypt. The U.S. used its clout with the Egyptian military junta, and pushed Mubarak’s prime minister Ahmad Shafik to succeed him – until the Egyptian rejected him. He flew out of Egypt, and the new Egyptian government has issued a warrant for his arrest. 3) Libya. The U.S. pushed U.S. citizens Mohamed Jibril into the prime minister position of the Libyan Transitional Council (TNC), and Khalifa Hiftar as the Supreme Commander of the New Libyan Army. The TNC was forced to fire them after they were exposed as possible CIA stooges.

Looking at who has fashioned and selected this new Syrian opposition as the new post -Assad government in Syria, and then look at history, and the similarities between the 1953 events in Iraq that chased out Mohammad Mossadegh under a U.S./British fashioned plan become apparent. I don’t see how a post-Assad government, pre-packaged by the West, flushed with $ millions by the madly anti-Iranian Arabs in the Gulf, and housed in a building in Egypt to give itself an aura of Arab identity, can serve the best interests of the Syrian people. There is no precedent in history where in the midst of a civil war, outsiders with their own interest at stake, packaged a government, and then dropped it in to serve the local people! History is littered with Trojan Horses, and foreign stooges and puppets, where leaders were groomed by foreign powers, and them dropped in to hijack the revolutions and protect their own interests and hegemonic policies.

There is no way, therefore, that a provisional Syrian government fashioned by the U.S. – with Saudi Arabia and Qatar as interlocutors, and polished with European recognition, can be good for the Syrian people. If it were, the high anti-American hostility in the Arab world wouldn’t exist, and the pro-U.S. despotic regimes in the Gulf won’t exist either! Democracy has never flourished in human history under plans worked out by brutal despots, and then extolled as a blessing and exported to their neighbors – but never adopted it themselves as a system of government!

That is why the U.S. has asked Europe to push the New Syrian leadership, which is a U.S., Saudi Arabia and Qatar Trojan Horse into the Syrian Arab Spring. Its purpose is to establish a pro-U.S. puppet regime in Damascus, controlled by Sunni Syrians, which will severe relations with Iran, and cut-off relations with Hamas and Hezbollah. And, according to news reports, this new puppet group will move its headquarters to Egypt. Once there, the West’s media will promote it as an Arab nationalist group to save Syria! I hope that Egyptian president, Mr. Morsi, ban that group from moving its headquarter to Cairo, and work with Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan to form another group with pro-Arab Syrian notables whose interest would be the Arab sovereignty of Syria, with an independent foreign policy centered around the interest of the Arab world as whole!

In short, Syria needs a democracy crafted by Syrians, with the help of Arab democrats – not a democracy crafted by Arab despots whose interests are cemented with those of the U.S. and Israel, and against their own people.
Nikos Retsos, retired professor